Biology:Amphekepubis
Amphekepubis is a dubious genus of mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico.[1] Its remains correspond to the holotype specimen UM VP 509, which includes a partial skeleton preserved in three dimensions. This specimen comprises the pelvic area, hind limb bones and nine caudal vertebrae. It was found in the east of Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo Leon, within marine sediments (claystones) apparently from the San Felipe Formation, corresponding to the boundary between the Coniacian and Santonian age of the early Late Cretaceous.[2][3] Amphekepubis is classified under the Mosasaurinae subfamily of mosasaurs.[4]
It has been suggested that the age of the fossils assigned to Amphekepubis may actually be more recent and could even belong to the genus Mosasaurus.[5][6] Some recent reviews have assigned this type specimen to Mosasaurus.[3]
References
- ↑ "†Amphekepubis Mehl 1930". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36383.
- ↑ Mehl, M. G. (1930). "A new genus of mosasaurs from Mexico, and notes on the pelvic girdle of Platecarpus". Denison University Bulletin, Journal of the Scientific Laboratories 29 (10): 383–400.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Buchy, M.-C.; Smith, K. T.; Frey, E.; Stinnesbeck, W.; González, A. H. González; Ifrim, C.; López-Oliva, J. G.; Porras-Muzquiz, H. (2005). "Annotated catalogue of marine squamates (Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of northeastern Mexico" (in en). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84 (3): 195–205. doi:10.1017/S0016774600020977. ISSN 0016-7746. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/netherlands-journal-of-geosciences/article/annotated-catalogue-of-marine-squamates-reptilia-from-the-upper-cretaceous-of-northeastern-mexico/A3B8A325AE787ADADA0A8850F0B8C84B.
- ↑ DeBraga, Michael; Carroll, Robert L. (1993), Hecht, Max K.; MacIntyre, Ross J.; Clegg, Michael T., eds., "The Origin of Mosasaurs As a Model of Macroevolutionary Patterns and Processes" (in en), Evolutionary Biology (Boston, MA: Springer US): pp. 245–322, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-2878-4_7, ISBN 978-1-4615-2878-4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2878-4_7, retrieved 2022-07-13
- ↑ Buchy, Marie-Céline; Eberhard Frey; Wolfgang Stinnesbeck; José Guadalupe López-Oliva (2007). "Cranial anatomy of a Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from north-east Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 24 (1): 89–103. http://satori.geociencias.unam.mx/24-1/(8)Buchy.pdf. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
- ↑ Lingham-Soliar, Theagarten (1995). "Anatomy and functional morphology of the largest marine reptile known, Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Mosasauridae, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous, Upper Maastrichtian of The Netherlands". Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 347 (1320): 155–180. doi:10.1098/rstb.1995.0019.
External links
Template:Mosasauridae Wikidata ☰ Q3614658 entry
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